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Mom gives one Valentine’s Day cookie to her Mom, and one to her Dad. And, the other one she carefully wraps in a box, to send to the Airman at Hickam (being my Dad). Mom had become pen pals with Dad. Aunt Eleanor, know ing of Dad’s homesick blues, gave Dad’s Hickam Airfield address to Mom. Dad always said that Mom’s Val entine’s Day cookie, sealed the deal for him. That the second that he opened Mom’s box and saw the carefully wrapped Valentine’s Day cookie, that this really was the girl he was going to marry. Fate and Destiny are strange twins. How much of our lives, are totally our of our hands? Now at 70, I look back at all the times my father told the story of his Valen tine cookie that Mom sent him. Dad would often laugh about how the cookie came broken in piec es and that the box was a little crushed. Then Dad would say that it was the best Valentine’s Day gift he had ever received. Was it by Divine decree that those three Valentine cookies were left unsold? And, Mom’s boss, at the A&P, could have easily taken those cookies home for herself. And why three cookies? If there were just two cookies left, Mom would have probably given one to her Mom, and one to her Dad.

I often wonder, what if Mom had not been sitting upon the rock wall, that bordered her front yard, that fateful Sunday afternoon in August of 1942? And, what if Dad had not visited his brother, Earl, on that very same Sunday after noon? And, what if Aunt Eleanor had not given Dad’s Hickam Air field address to Mom? At times, it all seems so eerie and haunting. I believe that God is guiding our lives, more than we will ever know. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He hosts a YouTube Channel titled, “Richard Mabey Presents.” Richard most recently published a book of poetry and short stories. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail.com.

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Mary’s College in Paddington. There, she was unable to study much in the field of mathematics or science merely because she was a female. (Women were highly discouraged from studying these fields.) In 1918 she transferred to an all-girls school where she was urged to pursue a music career but pre ferred to focus on science. Her mother refused to pay for her to go to college. The following year she won a scholarship that paid all her expenses at Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she focused on studying botany, physics, and chemistry. Her interest in astronomy began after she attended a lecture by Arthur Eddington on his 1919 expedition to the island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa to observe and photograph the stars near a solar eclipse as a test of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. She said of the lecture: “The result was a complete transformation of my world picture.” She completed her studies but was not awarded a degree because she was a female. Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948. Payne realized that her only career option in the U.K. was to become a teacher, so she looked for grants that would enable her to move to the Unit ed States. In 1923, she was introduced to the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, Harlow Shapely. He had just established a graduate program in astronomy, making it possible for women, with the aid of a fellowship, to study at the observatory. Payne became the second female student to ben efit from the fellowship. She was persuaded by Shapely to write a doctoral dissertation, and in 1925, she became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. Payne was able to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their

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